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    In June of 1919, World War 1 had come to an end. The Allied groups had come together to sign the treaty of Versailles. The treaty was based off of 15 parts that would bring peace to the allies and would serve the punishment that Germany deserved. The first 10 parts of the Treaty were crucial for all the allies to sign. Part 1 of the Treaty was The New League of Nations was created and that Germany would not be allowed to join is a series of years. Part 2 would be that Germany would give up land…

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    The “Treaty of Versailles” initiated the beginning of the anger Germany felt toward their opponents, the allied forces, at the end of World War I. Prior to this treaty’s creation, Woodrow Wilson unveiled an alternative plan, a plan intended to reunite that nations of the world and to heal the countries affected by World War I. However, rather than serve as a reunifying force, the plan was rejected in favor of a more punitive resolution, and the rejection of the ideals presented in Woodrow…

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    of view. Each person has a different perception because of the way that they grew up. One person in history that had a definition of power is Keynes; his definition of power was explained through economics and with his ideas of what the Treaty of Versailles actually did balancing out power between the different countries that were involved. He did not believe that the Treaty would do much or any good because of the punishments that it set out towards the weaker countries. Keynes also had his own…

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    The Treaty of Versailles failed to address the Militarism reason for the war because even though men went into the war with Militarism as their main reason for going to war. They left with the fear of the war and the terrors of the battlefield killed their Military spirit, but by blaming the war on Germany and reducing their army, huge amount of reparation for the war, land in Europe ,and most of it’s colonies. This left Germany weak as a country but not as indulvutions. Which led to the Nazi…

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    The Treaty of Versailles may have ended the war and its suffering but it does not make it part of a just war. A just war means that a war is fair; everything in it is done out of necessity, no innocents are harmed and nether country plays dirty or unfair. The Treaty of Versailles however was not that as it removed a lot from a country who didn’t start the war and left them defenseless and broke. The treaty made sure that Germany had to take the blame for the war as they had to sign a war guilt…

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    Treaty Of Versailles The treaty of versailles is very important to the world today. Having the treaty marked that end of World War 1. The treaty of versailles made Germany lose there land, army, navy, Air Force and so on that all went to the allies, the treaty became apart of history because it ended World War 1 but lead to the start of World War 2, the document had 15 parts and 440 articles. Germany took the fault for starting World War 1 by surrendering. The treaty affected Germany and…

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    World War I ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, which was a document meant to finalize the end of the war between the Allied and Central powers. However, its promise of peace and harmony did not last long; the world was divided once again hardly twenty years later. Still, to this day, historians debate about the issue of who or what started the second world war. Many historians point the blame to Germans, who were aggressive in finding a new leader named Adolf Hitler. Others…

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    As a quintessential example of peace settlement, Treaty of Versailles has been widely regarded as the last page of World War One, following the armistice, formally marking the conclusion of war status between Germany and the Allied and Associated Powers (Brezina, 2006). However, the Treaty has only enjoyed limited success and was, paradoxically, accused of laying the cornerstone for its predecessor, the following World War Two (Keynes, 1920; Schuker, 1992; Taylor, 1991). The cardinal objective…

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    treaties of Vienna and Versailles show these parallels, even being a century apart. These treaties share the prominent similarity of their goals towards security, leveling, and peace throughout Europe. But their historical applicability evoke differences in their processes towards peace. The Congress of Vienna took on the monumental task of reassigning territory to each country after Napoleon had skewed borders and leadership over his acquisitions and the Treaty of Versailles weakened and…

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    emphasized fairness and reconciliation instead of retribution and punishment, but the treaty, as Brockdroff-Rantzau observed, included cruel financial and territorial clauses that were ‘intolerable for any nation’.14 The clauses in the Treaty of Versailles might have seen appropriate for, for example, France or the US, but it was the opposite for Germans. Until this day a consensus has not been reached whether Germany was really the one blame for the First World War crimes. Article 231 of the…

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